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Baldwin to RFK Jr: "You cannot tell us that you want to make America healthy again when you are willfully destroying programs that keep children safe and healthy from lead poisoning ... the entire staff has been fired"

submitted 6 days ago • 412 comments

I think about this comic at least once a week

submitted 11 days ago • 292 comments

Trump's cuts to the CDC’s lead poisoning prevention program leave young kids at risk. In Wisconsin, CDC aid was denied because the experts were laid off. Schools remain closed, and lead exposures continue. Reps. Baldwin & Moore penned a letter to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy—will he listen?

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Just a reminder: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lacks formal education or professional credentials in critical scientific fields such as biology, neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, immunology, virology, epidemiology, genetics, pharmacology, or medicine.

submitted 34 days ago • 448 comments

Q: Did you personally approve the over $11B in cuts to local and state programs? RFK Jr.: I'm not familiar with those cuts, they were mainly DEI. Q: Did you know that $750K of a grant studying adolescent diabetes was cut? RFK Jr.: I didn't know that

submitted 41 days ago • 36 comments

I can’t stress how the HHS layoffs & budget cuts to State Health Departments impact you personally. You may think you have nothing to do with public health or the government but the government has worked to keep you safe & healthy everyday. “Public health saved you today & you didn’t even known it”

submitted 48 days ago • 12 comments

Goodnight friends ♥️ Our hearts are with all of us at HHS who receive bad news tomorrow. And all those at health departments across the country who received bad news this week. Call us cheesy, but Lord of the Rings is on our minds.

submitted 54 days ago • 74 comments

This was never about improving efficiency. This is a wasteful, inefficient use of tax dollars and every tax payer should be furious. www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking: RFK Jr. moves to quietly eliminate public comment from HHS's decision making: www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...

submitted 81 days ago • 188 comments

Something getting lost in the discussion around RIFs and waste: we pay for work from federal employees because that work benefits the country and its people. Starting an occasional series of civil servants in their own words (AI voice for privacy). This person works for the IRS.

submitted 83 days ago • 12 comments

I love this idea, this is so thoughtful and the support is definitely important right now!

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

OPM has stated that a response is not necessary. However, if a response were required, here is their plan: Musk-directed emails to government employees, requesting details on their work over the past week, are expected to be fed into an AI system to assess job necessity.

submitted 85 days ago • 200 comments

DOGE is inflating its savings claims. DOGE counts fully paid contracts as “savings.” Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service says it has saved $55 billion by cutting jobs, canceling contracts, and renegotiating leases. But a closer look suggests that number is misleading.

submitted 85 days ago • 208 comments

submitted 87 days ago • 8 comments

Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...

submitted 87 days ago • 173 comments

🌈💫Did you know that government jobs used to be awarded through a patronage/spoils system? This changed in 1895 when Teddy Roosevelt implemented merit-based civil service positions.

submitted 87 days ago • 17 comments

VACCINES SAVE LIVES Vaccines ended the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccines and other public health measures save the lives of millions of children worldwide. Do not let RFKJr and the Trump admin take us back to a time when 5 in 10 children died before the age of 5. theconversation.com/infectious-d...

submitted 87 days ago • 30 comments

I repeat, if you or a loved one was recently fired from the federal government during your probationary period, and the reason you were given was poor performance, please reach out to us at www.centerforemploymentjustice.com. We have a plan and may be able to help you.

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

Some good interviews and information in here (Gift Link). www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

submitted 88 days ago • 7 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 88 days ago • 884 comments

Some updates: 1. A federal judge extended a restraining order blocking the National Institutes of Health from cutting research funds until she rules on a permanent injunction. 2. The IRS will not allow a member of Elon Musk’s team to access individual tax returns.

submitted 88 days ago • 115 comments

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress appointed him as the first Postmaster General.

submitted 89 days ago • 144 comments

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submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

When the wreckage and dust of what these people are doing to our country has settled and the people have finally had enough to throw these jackals out of office, we will never forget the people who enabled it, despite their protestations they weren’t willing accomplices. Never.

submitted 89 days ago • 793 comments

There's this. But there's also this: let's "hypothetically" say the CyberTruck has a fatal flaw. In normal times, government regulators would discover it and tell Tesla to recall all the DePloreans with it to fix it. But DODE removes the regulators. So fatal flaw goes unfixed, Tesla saves billions.

submitted 89 days ago • 6 comments

📣 Attention terminated CDC employees! "I was a fed" on Instagram shares stories of affected federal employees. We want to amplify CDC voices too (anonymously)! Our platform reaches ~100K. 📣 Send your story to our tip line. Let's help people understand the impact. #SeeCDC #fedstrong

submitted 89 days ago • 4 comments

#Vaccine development is regulated and monitored at every stage. A vaccine is only approved if it is deemed safe and effective, following a rigorous assessment of its benefits and risks. Read more from @sandylaping.bsky.social here: thosenerdygirls.org/vaccine-deve...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

How are your egg prices doing? Costs have gone up 153% from this time last year. We'll offer an eggsplanation: the ongoing outbreak of bird flu. It's highly contagious, and 97% lethal in chickens. Unfortunately the best method to prevent spread is culling. www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/am...

submitted 90 days ago • 22 comments

The resistance will bring down Musk and Trump. Congress, wake up before your power is gone. The GOP begging Trump to release money to their states is pathetic—stand up to this tyranny. Congress controls the purse strings.

submitted 90 days ago • 230 comments

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to reverse the “accidental” firing of several employees responding to an avian influenza outbreak. While the CDC says the public risk is low, the crisis is hitting the agriculture sector hard, driving egg prices to record highs.

submitted 90 days ago • 194 comments